Show Mom She's Out Of This World

May 11, 2000|By CINDY GLOVER Staff Writer

She changed your diapers. Posted your masterpieces on the fridge. Gave you soup when you had the sniffles, sympathy when you skinned your knee. Taught you right from wrong. Worried when you were late. Bragged about you to her friends.

Sunday is Mother's Day. How are you going to show the woman who raised you how much you love her?

There's always a card, candy or flowers. Brunch on the town, or breakfast in bed.

Some Palm Beach County organizations also have ideas about how to make this Mother's Day special:

Go wild and take her to the zoo, where animals and their offspring offer another perspective on parenthood. Palm Beach Zoo at Dreher Park will celebrate Mother's Day by giving the first 200 mothers a cookie and entering them in a drawing for a spa day at The Breaker's Resort. The zoo is at 1301 Summit Blvd., east of Interstate 95 between Southern and Forest Hill boulevards, West Palm Beach.

Show her she's out of this world with a visit to the South Florida Science Museum and Aldrin Planetarium. Moms will be admitted free on Sunday, as long as they are accompanied by their children. The museum is at 4801 Dreher Trail N. in West Palm Beach, behind the Palm Beach Zoo.

Let the professionals sing her praises at one of three Mother's Day Concerts.

Students of the Music Preparatory at Lynn University will have an open house and free concert at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at 2285 Potomac Road, Boca Raton.

Anthony Foster and his 16-piece Society Orchestra will give a free concert from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Saturday at Royal Palm Plaza in Boca Raton.

The Symphonic Band of the Palm Beaches will perform pops, swing and jazz music under the stars from 7 to 10 p.m. Saturday at The Links at Boynton Beach, 8020 Jog Road. There will be supervised activities for children. Tickets are $10 per person, or $25 for a family of four.

Go one better by visiting the 30th annual Mother's Day ceramic show and sale by the Florida Atlantic University Potter's Guild. These artists who breathe life into clay sell their work just twice a year, at Mother's Day and Christmas, to raise money for needed equipment and supplies.

Patch Reef Park Community Center in Boca Raton will be filled with hundreds of pots -- big and little, plain and sculptured, in a variety of shapes, forms, colors and textures -- ranging in price from $1 to $1,500.